grease
\ɡɹiːs\
The verdict
“grease” is uncommon French (frequency #56,001 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,001
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grease · grease · French
grease · rank #56,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,001
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grognements
Nearest frequency peer: grognements (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « grease »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gounod
Gounod
44,003 corpus weight
- goupille
goupille
44,002 corpus weight
- grease
grease
44,000 corpus weight
- grognements
grognements
43,999 corpus weight
- grégaire
grégaire
43,998 corpus weight
- Guangdong
Guangdong
43,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grease » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grease |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɹiːs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grease » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grease is uncommon French at frequency #56,001 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɹiːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grease, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grease, spelled G-R-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Graisse.
- 2Lubrifiant.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).